JustTickledPink
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Bumper Stickers! A new advertizing campaign
by JustTickledPink ini saw another bush '04 bumper sticker today and it got me thinking about bumper stickers!!!.
you know that jws go door-to-door but how many people do they really reach?
we drive tons of cars and could reach people every day with a simple message and a link to a website like this.
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Do you have to respond?
by JustTickledPink ini continually battle with my emotional feelings as the daughter of a devout jw and my beliefs as a reasonable educated individual.. problems arise when my mother makes some sort of contact with me via email and always has to put in some dig such as "since you have turned your back on jehovah's people" and then i get furious because if god does have people on earth i am sure the red cross volunteers would be on the list, not the jws i know.
the statements she makes always irritate me and i sometimes choose to defend my beliefs, my morality, my truth vs her truth.
i spend time writing not only factful but sometimes emotional charged testimony about what it means to be godly.. once i make my point it opens up a can of worms and i get bombarded with emails or magazines from her trying to make her point.
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Eat, Drink, and be Merry !!!!
by JustTickledPink ini remember the jws used to criticize the "eat, drink, and be merry" philosophy "for tomorrow we might die" and i used to think that it was a good thing that i was doing something worthwhile with my life instead of being distracted with the material things, or fleshly things of the world.
that the philosophy was so fatalistic, that tomorrow we might all be dead and anyone believing in the "eat, drink, and be merry" philosophy were all so hedonistic.
today, i hear that and have different feelings towards the saying and philosophy.
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Praise the Lord and pass the biscuits
by JustTickledPink ini went to the house of blues in orlando this morning for their "gospel brunch" services.
it was like church, well a southern black church with gospel singing, electric guitar, lots of the holy spirit... we all testified we were a witness to the lord and said many a halelujah!!!.
music, singing, and dancing... all while eating cheese grits, bacon, roast beef, shrimp, and drinking a few mimosas.
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Silent prayers
by JustTickledPink ini always had a difficult time with the whole silent prayers issue.. i was always told since i was little that if you prayed to god that he always listens, and that you can pray silently in your head to yourself and he listens.
to me that never quite made sense that he was reading my thoughts, are you sure he hears prayers?
the answer, "if he created your brain, he can surely access it and any prayers" of course that was also used "if you are thinking bad thoughts god can read your mind" etc... and quote the scripture that even if you "lust after a woman" meaning no action, only thought - you were in big trouble!.
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For those of us with active JW parents
by JustTickledPink inthere seem to a commonality around here about active jw parents shunning us.. my question is: if your parents weren't a jw, do you think they would be normal, act kindly, be a real parent to you?
or would they still be cold and callused towards you, controlling, etc.
my thought is this, so many times i used to think i wish my mom wasn't a jw because then i thought she would be this wonderful caring mother that i could go to lunch with, share shopping days with, recipes, and we'd be close.
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What happens when the faithful and discreet slave die off?
by JustTickledPink ini am a bit fuzzy, but i always remembered that the "faithful and discreet slave" were the annointed members of the governing body and that they were led by jehovah god.... of course according to the wts.. now, as they get older and other wts corporations have been formed and the president of the wts himself isn't of the "annointed" then what happens when the "annointed" governing body members who represent the "faithful and discreet slave" die off?.
where is the intermediatary between the regular jw's and jehovah?
what will happen to the light that kept getting brighter?
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Middle eastern males - founders of bible
by JustTickledPink ini am not any history major, but i had a thought last night about the bible and christianity.. the bible was written by 40 different men from the middle east region of the world.
jesus christ himself was a middle eastern man.. currently the us and countries are battling certain parts of the middle east.
women are becoming more and more informed about the brutality committed against women in those parts of the world, and the social control the man have against the women and children.
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Get rich quick scheme mentality
by JustTickledPink ini was thinking about how many jws were into the "get rich quick" schemes.
there were many brothers and sisters who went into the pyramid type schemes involving everything from "magnet therapy" to "mallaluca" to "amway" then there was some perfume knockoff home sales, home gym sales, etc.
the lists go on and on.. i am not criticizing anyone that ends up being succesful in any home based business but merely pointing out how many jws i knew that were involved in them.
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Fighters against God ??
by JustTickledPink inif you don't want to share in the preaching work, don't become an opposer of it.
why should you try to hinder those who are doing so?
no one of us is interfering with what you're doing.